[OSM-legal-talk] Attempt to clarify

[Ian Sergeant]

Gerv wrote on 21/02/2008 09:09:07 AM:

> I have no desire to become unpaid labour for someone else's business.

There are so many business models for which you will be unpaid labour,
under the proposed licence.

* Someone who prints out OSM maps, with ads all around the border, and
gives them away to tourists in return for advertising revenue.

* Someone who makes travel guidebooks, includes OSM maps, and sells the
guidebooks.

* A online real estate agent, using OSM maps for property locations.

* All kinds of service based businesses, who use OSM maps in a commercial
capacity, but do not distribute any maps.

All of these commercial operations are using your unpaid labour as an
alternative to paying someone to licence their maps.  What do you want back
from them?

If the licence "works", it will still likely only effect companies that
distribute geodata for a living (which, ironically enough, are those
companies who could suffer the most commercial injury as a result of the
success of OSM.  One could ask, just what do you have against a mapping
company, that you don't have against a real estate agent, or taxi driver?).

Ian.